As an example, here is how to checkout all gitorious based repos of the kde-developers group using a push url instead of the anonymous access:

As an example, here is how to checkout all gitorious based repos of the kde-developers group using a push url instead of the anonymous access:

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<code>

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<syntaxhighlight lang="text">

[qt gitorious]

[qt gitorious]

host: git://gitorious.org/+kde-developers/

host: git://gitorious.org/+kde-developers/

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As a second example here is how to checkout with a ssh user from a subversion repository:

As a second example here is how to checkout with a ssh user from a subversion repository:

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<code>

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<syntaxhighlight lang="text">

[svn.example.com]

[svn.example.com]

host: svn://svn.example.com/

host: svn://svn.example.com/

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Next, if you have configured your kdesettings.bat to use svn+ssh for your subversion checkout, then you need to run:

Next, if you have configured your kdesettings.bat to use svn+ssh for your subversion checkout, then you need to run:

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<code>plink <your-svn-username>@svn.kde.org

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<syntaxhighlight lang="text">plink <your-svn-username>@svn.kde.org

plink <your-kde-username>@git.kde.org</code>

plink <your-kde-username>@git.kde.org</code>

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== Hints ==

== Hints ==

=== Updating packages ===

=== Updating packages ===

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*Once you have ''packagename'' built, type <code>emerge --update packagename</code> to update <tt>packagename</tt> from the Subversion and compile it without removing the build dir or <code>emerge --update-all</code> to update all packages that can be rebuild (they are rebuild with --update).

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*Once you have ''packagename'' built, type <syntaxhighlight lang="text">emerge --update packagename</code> to update <tt>packagename</tt> from the Subversion and compile it without removing the build dir or <syntaxhighlight lang="text">emerge --update-all</code> to update all packages that can be rebuild (they are rebuild with --update).

=== General setup ===

=== General setup ===

Revision as of 20:47, 29 June 2011

emerge is a tool to build the KDE sources and its third-party requirements on MS Windows. It is the easy way to build KDE on MS Windows.

Introduction

Emerge is a tool that can build the different parts of KDE and its dependencies under Windows. We created this tool to automate and simplify the build process under Windows. We try to build all packages that we offer in the KDE installer with emerge. That has some advantages for us:

it is easy for people to join us:

Before emerge it was quite some work to set a system up for development. There were some quirks, which were documented in some mailing lists, but you had to remember them or you ran into an already solved problem again, etc.
Now to get a development machine you need a Windows computer, need to install Python and Subversion and do the emerge checkout. Then execute emerge to build what you want to build. This is easy for developers coming from Windows to KDE, and also for KDE developers coming to Windows.

it is easy for us to do (nightly/continuous/release/reproducable/...) builds:

With emerge you can build the whole software stack (low-level libs, Qt, kdelibs, things above that) with only one command. You can start that build, and some hours later you can check if it worked, or if something broke. So we can spot problems easier and earlier. We can also start with a "naked" Windows computer without any other installed software and bootstrap kde on it. That ensures, that no hidden dependencies on some pieces of software sneak in, because then the builds on a "naked" computer would break and show the problem.

it is easier to collaborate:

We can test the same emerge build description for a package on different Windows versions/computers before we do binary releases. People can also add build descriptions for new packages to the Subversion repository.

This emerge tool was inspired by the Gentoo emerge tool.

Set up the environment

Root directory

Create a directory if possible in your harddrive's root e.g. C:\kderoot or D:\kderoot (You will need this PATH later). This directory will contain the whole kde installation later. We will refer to it as %KDEROOT%.

Python interpreter

emerge.bat invokes an emerge.py script written in Python programming language, so you first need to install the Python 2.7 Interpreter. The python installation directory will be added to the PATH later by %KDEROOT%\etc\kdesettings.bat script.

Subversion client

The latest source code for Windows emerge and the rest of KDE is stored in a repository created and managed using the Subversion version control tool, abbreviated svn. You need a Subversion client for the first checkout of emerge. There are at least two applications:

a command line client, available at subversion.apache.org, aimed at developers or power users accustomed with the command line,

a GUI program like TortoiseSVN, optional, useful for displaying differences between various versions of files in the repository in a graphical way.

Emerge uses its own Subversion client for checking out all KDE source code. However it is not quite up to date: From August 2009. You can find it in %KDEROOT%\dev-utils\svn\bin. It will be used by emerge even if you have another svn executable installed.

Note 1: If you experience problems with the checkout of Qt (svn doesn't work correctly) please remove any other svn binaries out of the path that you do have. The different versions of the Apache portable runtime (APR) are incompatible!

Note 2: Most source files in the KDE Subversion repository have Unix line endings, and svn will not convert them to Windows line endings. This is fine for emerge, but the standard Windows editor might not show those files correctly. You can use another editor like vim (http://www.vim.org).

You need to check out the source code from the emerge Subversion directory into a new directory below your root directory (the root directory is normally called %KDEROOT% here) or get it inside a self extracting archive (not tested yet).

Check out using the 'svn' command

Option 1: With the svn command line tool, you can accomplish this with the following commands:

cd %KDEROOT%

if you will only use anonymous (read-only) access to the KDE svn repository:

svn co svn://anonsvn.kde.org/home/kde/trunk/kdesupport/emerge

or, if you plan to use write access (commit) to the KDE svn repository

add \emerge to the folder name in the Checkout directory box and click OK to continue

if you picked the read-write access, you will be asked for accepting the SSL certificate of the SVN server (click "Premanent") and then for username and password. For convenience select "Save authentication" checkbox too (the password and cache for the certificates will be saved in %APPDATA%\Subversion\auth directory).

After the checkout you should have the directory %KDEROOT%\emerge. If you don't, you move your emerge directory to that location.

Installing from the self-extracting archive

Option 3: Get the self-extracting archive from here, unpack it into your KDEROOT directory so that you have a folder %KDEROOT%\emerge.

This self-extracting archive brings a subversion repository containing the emerge scripts and a python installation with it, so you do not need either of them before starting with emerge.

Configure the emerge tool

Create the directory %KDEROOT%\etc.

Copy the file %KDEROOT%\emerge\kdesettings-example.bat as %KDEROOT%\etc\kdesettings.bat and change its contents according to your needs. The options are described in the rem lines in the file itself.

The kdesettings.bat script will be called by the main kdeenv.bat script.

Note 1: Be sure that you neither have the msys/bin nor the cygwin/bin in your path. If so you have to definitely remove it from the path.

Note 2 from a user: The applications gimp, inkscape and graphviz are also a problem. To make sure that there's nothing wrong I stripped my path to contain only what I needed to build.

Note 3 from another user: be careful when renaming the file to "kdesettings.bat" it is easy to end up with "kdesettings.bat.bat" instead of what you want since Windows(by default) will not show the the file extension part of a file.

[Optional, Advanced] emergehosts.conf

Add a file emergehosts.conf in the %KDEROOT%\etc directory. The format of this file is a typical config file with only two entries per section:
The first entry is the host as mentioned in the portage file for the package. The second entry is called replace and is the replace string for the host string.

As an example, here is how to checkout all gitorious based repos of the kde-developers group using a push url instead of the anonymous access:

[qt gitorious]
host: git://gitorious.org/+kde-developers/
replace: git@gitorious.org:+kde-developers/
</code>
As a second example here is how to checkout with a ssh user from a subversion repository:
<syntaxhighlight lang="text">
[svn.example.com]
host: svn://svn.example.com/
replace: svn+ssh://user@svn.example.com/
</code>
The name of the section doesn't matter and can be used for descriptions.
== Using emerge ==
To use emerge you need to start a console window and point that to <tt>%KDEROOT%\emerge</tt>. For example:
C:
cd \%KDEROOT%\emerge
Then you have to execute
kdeenv.bat
This tells emerge about your environment settings (e.g. paths). It will load your configuration from <tt>%KDEROOT%\etc\kdesettings.bat</tt>. It should not give any error messages, otherwise emerge will not work as expected. The output should look similar to this one (of course with your paths):
C:\kderoot\emerge>kdeenv.bat
kdesettings.bat executed
KDEROOT : C:\kderoot
KDECOMPILER : mingw
KDESVNDIR : C:\kderoot\svn
PYTHONPATH : C:\python27
DOWNLOADDIR : C:\kderoot\download
C:\kderoot\emerge>
Next, if you have configured your kdesettings.bat to use svn+ssh for your subversion checkout, then you need to run:
<syntaxhighlight lang="text">plink <your-svn-username>@svn.kde.org
plink <your-kde-username>@git.kde.org</code>
This will prompt you to accept the fingerprint of the server, otherwise svn will hang forever when trying to download from the server.
Now you should be able to use emerge. Type
emerge --help
to get some help on usage.
''Note: There is a short path option in kdesettings which you will
need if you want to build Qt in a directory that has a pathlenght of
more then around 5 characters. This problem is due to limitations of the command line length and the Qt build system.''
== Setting up a compiler ==
Currently emerge supports both the MinGW and MS Visual C++ (msvc) compilers. We did not add dependencies for the compilers, so you have to make sure to install a compiler by yourself. There are three ways to set up a compiler for emerge.
We assumed you have set KDECOMPILER variable properly in the <tt>%KDEROOT%\etc\kdesettings.bat</tt>.
In the following sections you can find information on how to install or reuse an existing compiler.
=== Install the MinGW compiler with emerge ===
Let emerge install the MinGW compiler, as soon as emerge needs MinGW it will automatically fetch the correct version for you.
=== Install MS Visual C++ ===
Read [[../MS_Visual_Studio#The_Compiler|here]].
=== Point to an existing MS Visual C++ installation ===
You need to point emerge to an existing msvc installation. This is run automatically for you from kdeenv.bat if configured properly in kdesettings.bat. Check your kdesettings.bat file to know where to set it.
== Installing the base system ==
Once you have emerge and a compiler installed and working, try:
* <tt>emerge --help</tt> for a list of available commands
* <tt>emerge --print-installable</tt> to get a list of available packages
* <tt>emerge --print-installed</tt> to get a list of currently installed packages
Further options are described below.
You are now ready to start building KDE, it is recommended to do so progressively, relying on emerge to automatically resolve the required dependencies at each set step:
* Enter <tt>emerge qt</tt>. This will fetch and install Windows versions of numerous UNIX-like utilities and libraries, then checkout, compile and install Qt. This will take several hours.
* Enter <tt>emerge kdelibs</tt>. This will checkout, compile and install the required kdesupport modules and then kdelibs.
* Enter <tt>emerge kdebase-apps</tt>. This will checkout, compile and install kdebase-runtime, and kdebase-apps. '''Please note:''' for latest branches (4.5 and beyond) <tt>kdebase-apps</tt> package has been renamed to <tt>kde-baseapps</tt>.
You will now have successfully installed a base KDE system and can now install other KDE modules as required.
Note that this will install the development version of KDE (trunk in svn repositories, master in git repositories), if you wish to install a particular stable branch then you must prefix the KDE package names with the required version, i.e. <tt>emerge kde-4.5/kdelibs</tt>. You can force emerge to always default to a given branch by setting the <tt>EMERGE_DEFAULTCATEGORY</tt> variable in your kdesettings.bat file. You should not mix kde packages from different branches.
It is strongly recommended you do not choose to manually install any of the utilities and libraries yourself, as you may install the wrong version and cause installation failures. Instead allow emerge to resolve the dependencies for you.
Every time you want to update or install a package, you should first update your emerge checkout (simply run emerge --update emerge) to ensure you are using the latest package recipies.
== What emerge does ==
'''emerge ''packageName'' ''' performs the separate actions <tt>--fetch</tt>, <tt>--unpack</tt>, <tt>--compile</tt>, <tt>--install</tt>, <tt>--manifest</tt>, and <tt>--qmerge</tt>.
The <tt>--fetch</tt> action will retrieve either a binary or the source code for the package:
* If a binary package, this will be downloaded into the <tt>DOWNLOADDIR</tt> defined in your <tt>kdesettings.bat</tt>, which is usually <tt>%KDEROOT%\download</tt>.
* If a non-KDE source package, the source repository will be checked-out into <tt>%DOWNLOADDIR%\svn-src</tt>, e.g. Qt source may be found in <tt>C:\kderoot\download\svn-src\qt</tt>.
* If a KDE source package from the <tt>svn.kde.org</tt> repository, then the source will be checked-out into the <tt>KDESVNDIR</tt> defined in your <tt>kdesettings.bat</tt>, which is usually <tt>%KDEROOT%\svn</tt>.
== ''emerge'' command line options and settings ==
There are some options that can be used when building with ''emerge''.
{| border="0" cellpadding="2"
!Command line switch
!Command line argument
!
!Description
|-valign="top"
|<tt>-v</tt>
|<tt>EMERGE_VERBOSE</tt>
|width="5%"|
|This option sets the verbosity level. Currently the highest verbosity level is 3 (<tt>-v -v -v</tt>). A verbosity level of 0 should give no output and equals to <tt>-q</tt>. You can set <tt>EMERGE_VERBOSE=3</tt> instead in the environment of the commandline or within your <tt>kdesettings.bat</tt> file.
|-valign="top"
|<tt>--offline</tt>
|
|
|This option suppresses the update step of the local tree - which needs some time. Be aware though that you have to have existing sources already if you want to use this option.
|-valign="top"
|<tt>-t</tt>
|<tt>EMERGE_BUILDTESTS</tt>
|
|This option enables or disables KDE4 buildtests for KDE modules. Other packages will not change. Use <tt>EMERGE_BUILDTESTS=True</tt> or <tt>=False</tt>.
|-valign="top"
|<tt>--print-targets</tt>
|
|
|This option will display all "targets" a certain package has. Normally targets are fixed releases or different branches. They are defined in the portage file.
|-valign="top"
|<tt>--target=TARGET</tt>
|
|
|This sets a specific target for this package. If not added, the default target is used, which can be checked by looking at the output of '''--print-targets'''.
|-valign="top"
|<tt>-i</tt>
|
|
|This option ignores that a package is already installed. It builds it completely new, but keeps the dependencies.
|-valign="top"
|<tt>--update</tt>
|
|
|This option ignores that a package is already installed but doesn't cleanup an already existing build directory. Thus you will only rebuild files that have changed since the last build.
|}
== Hints ==
=== Updating packages ===
*Once you have ''packagename'' built, type <syntaxhighlight lang="text">emerge --update packagename</code> to update <tt>packagename</tt> from the Subversion and compile it without removing the build dir or <syntaxhighlight lang="text">emerge --update-all</code> to update all packages that can be rebuild (they are rebuild with --update).
=== General setup ===
For Fine Tuning see here:
[[Projects/KDE_on_Windows/Installation#Fine-tuning|Fine-tuning]]
== Notes ==
''emerge'' can mostly cooperate with the [[Projects/KDE_on_Windows/Installation#KDE_Installer_for_Windows|kdewin-installer]] but we're currently still working on some packages which are packaged in a wrong way.
It is not recommended to use another layout then '''installer''' for '''directory_layout''' in the '''kdesettings.bat''' anymore (see that file for more detailed information).
''emerge'' creates lots of files in '''\kderoot\tmp''' during build.
After a package is successfully installed
(check '''\kderoot\etc\portage\installed''' or the directory '''\kderoot\manifest\'''), you can delete its temporary directory.
Windows ''emerge'' is derived from the Gentoo portage system, but we are currently not enforcing compatibility. If you have questions about that please contact us at the channel #kde-windows on irc.freenode.net.
last reviewed by [[User:SaroEngels|SaroEngels]] 22:25, 4 November 2010 (UTC)
==Vista issues==
*[[User:Jstaniek|jstaniek]] 12:02, 15 January 2008 (CET): UAC has infamous heuristics that make programs like patch.exe treat as installers and try to run them with admin rights (!). This heuristics can be tricked by renaming patch.exe to something like pch.exe ([http://nevali.net/2007/01/update-workaround-for-the-cygwin-uac-problem/ example]) but we did not want to add item to our infrastructure. Instead it is possibleto turn off the heuristics (see the screenshot [http://theinvisiblethings.blogspot.com/2007/02/running-vista-every-day.html here in the security blog calling the heuristics 'severe hole in the design of UAC']). If you happen to disable the UAC, as many annoyed users and devs do (msvc demands admin rights anyway!), patch.exe should already work for you as in older Windows. Alternatively you may want to disable UAC [http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/disable-user-account-controluac-for-administrators-only/ for admins only], but this makes no sense if you are the only user of your machine and use only the admin account.
* [http://ben.versionzero.org/wiki/Fixing_the_way_Vista_Auto-detects_Installers This wiki page] lists instructions on how to use program manifest to disable privilege elevation for a single binary and makes patch play nice with UAC. This [https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=186712 should] eventually be integrated to emerge scripts.
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